Thread: Western Digital external hard disk not readable

hi all!
have 1.5 tb western digital external hard disk, formatted ext3, not accessible after mounting.
after plug device in, automount tries mount , error message saying unable read content (you don't have permissions).

it's not matter of permissions (i think) nautilus marks mount point unreadable.

output desmg follows:

code:

[   56.630454] usb 2-1.6: new high-speed usb device number 3 using ehci_hcd [   57.738001] initializing usb mass storage driver... [   57.738100] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-1.6:1.0 [   57.738173] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [   57.738174] usb mass storage support registered. [   58.243002] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [   58.733516] scsi 6:0:0:0: direct-access     wd       ext hdd 1021     2002 pq: 0 ansi: 4 [   58.734749] sd 6:0:0:0: attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [   58.735603] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 2930272256 512-byte logical blocks: (1.50 tb/1.36 tib) [   58.736533] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] test wp failed, assume write enabled [   58.737543] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] asking cache data failed [   58.737549] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] assuming drive cache: write through [   58.739296] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] test wp failed, assume write enabled [   58.740145] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] asking cache data failed [   58.740148] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] assuming drive cache: write through [   58.766896]  sdb: sdb1 [   58.769126] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] test wp failed, assume write enabled [   58.769951] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] asking cache data failed [   58.769957] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] assuming drive cache: write through [   58.769963] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] attached scsi disk [   59.216607] kjournald starting.  commit interval 5 seconds [   59.217998] ext3-fs (sdb1): using internal journal [   59.218006] ext3-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem ordered data mode

i executed e2fsck, did scan partition still unreadable (even though marked clean).

know if there way @ least recover data (and/or if possible recover hd is) ?

install testdisk , run testdisk , photorec, part of testdisk. proceed carefully. it's better snapshot drive drive , operate on snapshot. don't know when disk fail completely.

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